"We all fear loneliness, madness, dying. Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, Leopardi and Hart Crane will not cure those fears. And yet these poets bring us fire and light."

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Source : Harold Bloom (2011). “The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life”, p.10, Yale University Press

Harold Bloom

#Loneliness Quotes #Fire Quotes #Light Quotes

“The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions.”
“Make men work together show them that beyond their differences and geographical boundaries there lies a common interest.”
“I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.”
“Nothing is impossible. Whatever idea comes up, we always try to make it. Sometimes it doesn't work because it's just not technically achievable. But you can always make things better, more contemporary with the construction, the inside, the weight, and all of that.”
“breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.”
“I tried to write worse but it was no good; my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last. I grew discouraged.”
“Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.”
“I never wear a watch, because I always know it's now - and now is when you should do it.”

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